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2011 School of Information
Theory Tie Liu & Sriram Vishwanath
On UT Austin campus
Memorial day weekend
Organizing Committee
General Chairs: Tie Liu and Sriram Vishwanath
Program Chairs: Robert Cui, Elza Erkip, Aaron Wagner
Local Arrangements: Jean Francois Chamberland, Henry Pfister
Publicity and Web: Matthieu Bloch
Advisors: Gerhard Kramer and Aylin Yener
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Program Overview
May 27Friday
May 28Saturday
May 29Sunday
May 30Monday
Opening remarks
2X90min Lectures Emre Telatar
2X60min Lectures Sanjoy Mitter
2X90min Lectures Emina Soljanin
Student Presentations1:30-3:30pm
2X90min Lectures Robert Gray
Padovani LectureRich Baraniuk
Rudi and Alon Day
The IT Wiki9am-5 pm
Student Presentations
4-6 pm
Pool Party! Gregory Gym 6:45 pm
Student Presentations
4-6 pm
Group Photo+ Movie Night! 6:45 pm
Student Presentations
4-6 pm
Bowling Night! Texas Underground 6:45 pm
School Ended at 5 pm
Lecture materials available online at: www.itsoc.org/school
School NumbersTotal attendees = 122 (students + postdocs)
Total cancellations = 14 (mainly visa issues)
2010 we had 178 attendees
Bottom LineLate June – August better time for more attendees
But we should consider limiting registration to curb costs and to keep quality high
Disadvantage Advantage
Fewer people benefitted Budget more reasonableEasier logisticsBetter student-teacher ratio
BudgetIEEE IT Society = 25K
Army Research Office (ARO) = 15K
Texas A&M (5k), UT Austin (5K), Rice (2K), Princeton (0.5K)
NSF Science of Information Center = 2.6K
Total = 55K
We were able to support the School (including ITWiki day) thanks to these generous sponsors
More Thank you’s!
Sponsors: ITSoc BoG, Bob Ulman & Ananthram Swami, Brent Ladd (SoI center), Costas Georghiades, Behnaam Aazhang, Vince Poor, Jeff Andrews
The IT school organizing committee
Volunteers: Jubin Jose, Rajiv Soundararajan, Harpreet Dhillon, Abhik Das, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Hongbo Si, Zrinka Pulij, Aneesh Reddy
NotesDifference #1: IT school in May
Difference #2: Students provided credit card for dorm
Charged roughly 3 weeks prior to event
Many fewer cancellations than previous years
Much easier on the staff
Difference #3: Staff support minimal during event
Bad idea. Critical to have building and custodial staff present.